Lukas Bonnier Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 publisher, member of the Bonnier family

Bonnier family

The Bonnier family is a wealthy Swedish family of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, active in the publishing business since the late-18th century. The family controls the Swedish company Bonnier AB, with an annual revenue in 2008 of US$ 4.13 billion ....

, the son of Tor Bonnier.

Bonnier was president of Åhlen & Åkerlunds tidskriftsförlag 1957-1978 and 1980-1982 and then became chairman of the board of Bonniers Tidskriftsförlag. In 1989 he succeeded his brother
Albert as chairman of Bonnierföretagen.

Lukas Bonnier obtained the rights to produce a comic book in Sweden, based on the comic The Phantom

The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...

, and was a personal friend of The Phantom’s creator, Lee Falk

Lee Falk

Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross , was an American writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, who at the height of their popularity attracted over a hundred million readers every day...

. The Swedish comic book began in 1950 and is, as of 2006, still being published.